1993 - 95: Studies painting, graphics and photography at the Academy for Art/Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein.

1995 - 98: Studies painting and gaphics at the Academy of Visual Art in Leipzig and finalizes his degree under Prof. Sighard Gille.

1998 - 01: Master Class student under Prof. Sighard Gille.

The contemporary abstract expressionist paintings and drawings of Henrik Pillwitz describe in the core of his present life work landscapes and fragments of nature. Seemingly geological shapes but also cellular structures represent consciously a journey deep below the surface to the inner part of the earth, to the biological and geological structures that keep the world together.
The image of nature is shown out of a distance and human beings are obsolete, urban structures and man made technology is non existent in the works of Henrik Pillwitz. Nevertheless his paintings incorporate liveliness and dynamics which are created with brush strokes layer by layer and therefore his landscapes grow from inside and are derived from an organic origin, which resemble dream like landscapes. Whilst observing Henrik Pillwitz's paintings a picture of pristine nature is created.
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1993 - 95: Studium Malerei/Grafik/Fotografie an der Hochschule für Kunst/Design Halle, Burg Giebichenstein

1995-98: Studium Malerei/Grafik an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig bei Prof. Sighard Gille, Diplom

1998 - 01: Meisterschüler bei Prof. Sighard Gille an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig